Eleven ministers appeared at the bar of the General Assembly,
on Thursday, under the citation of that body. On the part of the minority of the Assembly, Dr. Cook entered a protestation, declaring the powers assumed by the majority in the case to be illegal, and announcing that they should not participate in the proceedings. Dr. Bryce took his station at the bar under that protestation, and demanded that his doing so should be entered on the minutes. The other persons at the bar, who were not members of the Assembly, put in a similar protestation, mutatis mutandis, avowing that they only appeared to the citation out of respect to the Assembly. The Assembly proceeded to find that their conduct in holding communion with the deposed ministers of Strath- bogie was censurable, and appointed a Committee of the House to "deal" with them, and to report to the Assembly on Monday. The Courier of this evening says that there is a "rod in pickle" for the majority ; and that Mr. Campbell will be told in a few days, on the part of Government, to move the second reading of his bill, without question, "this day six months"; and that negotiations are at an end, except with those members of the Church who abide by the laws of the land—" who will soon, by the aid of those laws, be placed again at the head of her administration."
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